![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't read the text to them, but showed some of the pictures and talked about them. ![]() This book also shows some of the things that frogs eat, as well as what eats them! Though I generally prefer photographs for non-fiction, the illustrations in this book are very realistic. It also shows a few of the brightly colored poison dart frogs, which I supplemented with a number of photograghs of poison dart frogs I had copied and printed onto a single piece of paper as I find them truly amazing (there are also a couple of books just on poison dart frogs, one by Julie Murray, and another by Carmen Bredeson). I really like this book a lot, as it covers many things about frogs, including how they differ from toads, pictures of many different North American frogs, including tree frogs, showing how they vary in size, coloring, and markings. First, students pretended they met a creature from outer space and answered some interview questions about their alien. As usual, we started with our welcome song, but then I did a longer introduction than usual, expanding it into a bit of a lesson about frogs using the wonderful non-fiction book All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky. Green Wilma- Frog in Space by Tedd Arnold (affiliate link) and Arthur’s First Sleepover We used the alien encounter from this book as a launching point for some expository writings on introducing an alien. ![]()
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